Morpeth is a mixed school for pupils aged 11 to 18 that reflects its wider Tower Hamlets community. We value diversity and strive to ensure inclusivity.
Great fundraising efforts during
#ClimateEmergency
Week. Well done to pupils for selling travel mugs to discourage single use plastic water bottles, they raised nearly £500.
Thanks to our Head of History, Mr Urtone, who’ll be leaving us after 10 yrs of dedicated service. To mark this momentous event, he took colleagues on a walking tour to some of his favourite historical sites in Tower Hamlets. Thanks for a truly interesting and enjoyable time.
Morpeth pupils set off on a fact finding mission to Carr Manor Community School in Leeds, to find out how their Coaching programme and House system work.
@carr_manor
Focusing on construction in conjunction with Youth Construction Trust
@ConstructionYT
, Year 10s visit the Robert McAlpine
@WeAreMcAlpine
site in Broadgate to find out about careers, and ways into employment in the construction industry .
Showing the Christmas spirit, class 7E have put a fantastic effort into collecting food donations which will be shared between the Bethnal Green and Bow Food Banks. 🎅🏾🎅🏾🎅🏾🎄🎄🎄✨✨✨
Magnificent performance from Yrs 7&8 boys who took part in
@FlyerzHockey
tournament. Having never practiced as a team, they came back with silver. Special mention to Patrick who won the Individual Sportsman Award. Well done!🏑🏑
An excellent achievement by our pupils who came third in the SEN Winter Games, sponsored by
#JackPethchey
as part of the Tower Hamlets Panathlon Challenge. A big well done to you all. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Great fun, excellent team work – playing dodgeball & being part of
@mencap_charity
All Move programme, bringing together young people with and without learning disabilities through sport & physical activity.
It’s the final day of what has been a wonderful
#CulturesWeek
. We’ve shared a lot and learned a lot, and today we’re dressing up in style to show off our diverse Morpeth community and our many 🌍🌏🌎national costumes.
Huge thanks to former Essex CCC cricketer, Jahid Ahmed, who spoke to our Year 7s about bullying and racism, and how we can all play a part in stopping it. Pupils asked some fantastically insightful questions and were keen to get his autograph afterwards.
@jahid52443
Well done to our Year 11 students who’ve made it through to the end of their exams and their time in secondary school, which they commemorated with the long standing ritual of shirt signing.
Year 13's Murhad has been chosen to play for the England Table Tennis Team in the Individual Event at the Six Nations Tournament 2018 in June. Congratulations.
#tabletennis
@MorpethSport
Today our year 7s heard about exciting careers in the construction sector from Dr Alex Opoku, Associate Professor in Project Management & Quantity Surveying at UCL
@UCL_CPM
@CareersWeek
@ConstructionYT
#NCW2019
🥇🥈A champion result for Morpeth student Marco Roberts who took part in the London Regional Summer Championships
@LondonSwimming
and won GOLD in the 200m butterfly plus SILVER in the 200m breast stroke, and achieved a number of personal bests. A huge congratulations!🏊♂️🏊♂️🏊♂️
We’re delighted to welcome all the new Year 7s joining Morpeth School today. We look forward to getting to know you better and making your time in Morpeth the best that it can be!
Big thanks to staff at the Kinetic Advertising Agency
@kineticwwUK
, for welcoming our Sixth Form Media students as part of national
#AdvertisingUnlocked
Day.
Our Girls Rugby team have been spreading the word about benefits of the game & are planning a road show to promote girls’ rugby to other school. See their JustGiving page. Inspirational words of support are particularly welcome:
Thank you to our gardener, Jocelyn, who has been busy this morning making sure the school gardens look immaculate, ready for tomorrow’s Year 11 Graduation ceremony.🌼🌼🌼🌼
Can’t wait to see critically acclaimed film Rocks, by director
@SarahGavron
& writers
@TheresaIkoko
& Claire Wilson, out on Friday 18 Sept. School location scenes filmed in
@MorpethSch
, using staff & pupils as extras. Wonderful to see our grounds and buildings on film.
🌍🌍Wearing something green in support of Morpeth School’s climate emergency declaration and the Global Climate Strike, Ms Boyson, Head of RS. We’ve declared our own Climate Emergency and will go off-timetable this afternoon. 🗺️🗺️🗺️
Morpeth’s playground fair makes a comeback; Year 8s enjoying a morning of Gladiators, Wipeout, Bucking Broncho, obstacle course, helter skelter, go karting, giant board games and more.
Well done to Year 7s for their positive start to the new year. They’ve found their way around very quickly, performed brilliantly in team building challenges and perfected their tie-tying skills!👔
Celebrating
#EmbraceYourGeeknessDay
: staff dress up as alter egos of famous superheroes & villains. Pupils compete to win prizes by uncovering as many Supers as possible. A Geekdom quiz takes place later today, in the Library.
Best of luck to all former Morpeth students starting university this term. We’re proud of your achievements. See where they’ve gone to and what they’re studying:
Praise from Ms Marx to Rosa in Year 7 for the amazing piece of homework she produced in response to the task: ‘Draw a self portrait of you wearing/holding 5 things that symbolise something important to you.’
Our superb cast continue to perform in front of packed out audiences, in the Morpeth production of
#SchoolofRock
- The Musical. Final performance on Thursday 13th July, tickets £2.00.
Thank you to the performers
@read_through
for taking us through crucial scenes in Macbeth today, by reading them out loud and discussing their meaning; also for answering Dean’s question: “Do you think there are any social problems in Macbeth still relevant to today?”
㊗️Congratulations to our senior Maths team who came 6th in the regional final of the prestigious
@UKMathsTrust
competition. Couldn’t wish for a more dedicated group of students who organised themselves for practice. A well-deserved achievement!🙌🏽🙌🏽
For their CPHSE reward trip, Yr 7 & 8 pupils went to see the art installation My Bari, part of Bangladesh independence celerations
#Bangladesh50
and had a go at some weaving.
So proud of our 6th Formers. Raised nearly £800 for Winter Ball,
@DepaulUK
; OAP
#Christmaslunch
; gloves, hats and socks for
@Secondshotcafe
Christmas Dinner for homeless people (pictured Julius, café owner) & collected lots of food for
@firstlovefdn
.
The Girls Rugby Team road trip to the Champions Cup Rugby game between London Irish and the South African Stormers. The Team also got to meet Steven Kitshoff, the World Cup Winning Prop for South Africa.
@londonirish
@THESTORMERS
@StevenKitshoff
🏉
World of Work in CPSHE: Listening to the career stories of support staff; pupils hear what workers from Premises, Finance, Reprographics, Counselling and other areas of work in the school, did before coming to Morpeth and what their jobs entail now
We're pleased to announce the winners of our Art Challenge. Pupils recreated an image of their choice. The range and quality of submissions was fantastic. Congratulations Juliet Sanders-Moira (1st/pictured), 2nd Ruben Wadsworth (2nd), Leila Wilkinson (3rd).
SEN pupils in ASDAN class looking at how plastic is destroying the oceans. Pupils made a lovely poster of the ocean and then "destroyed" it by dumping plastic all over it.
Budding musicians Thomas, Holden and Havana, receive their Music Badge from Head of Department, Mr Keil, for showing commitment and taking part in extracurricular Music activities. Well done!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thank you to our Somali families and the wider Morpeth community for raising a spectacular £1,405.50 which will go to
#SomalilandActionAid
, who are helping people facing famine and drought. More:
Congratulations to our U13 Girls table tennis team (Ashleigh Sharp, Emma O'brien, Sanem Roberts & Charlotte Tisley) who won the East London Schools Teams Qualifications. They’re going forward to the London Zone finals. Well done also to the U13 boys who won 3 out of 4 matches.
Thanks for the great coffee from Second Shot, set up this morning in Morpeth school car park. A welcome start to the day!
Social enterprise
@Secondshotcafe
, trains, employs, and supports people affected by homelessness.
6th form History students at the world famous
#BeamishLivingMuseum
, learning about life in North East England from the 1800s to the 1950s, with particular with focus on the colliery and pit village life. Thanks to everyone for making this a special trip.
@Beamish_Museum
👏🏽Praise to our 6th formers who pulled out all the stops to make their annual Christmas tea party for senior citizens, an experience to remember. Learning Manager Ms Agbabiaka said: “The care, attention, effort and planning students put in to the event, made me feel very proud”.
So good to see our Yr 11 & 13s coming in for their Covid tests today. A huge thank you to Amanda and her brilliant team for setting up and running the test centre so efficiently. Looking forward to seeing Yr 9 & 10s for their tests on Monday 8th.